Hawkins (39) revealed that she misses her early mornings with Holmes. "It's hard when you've worked side by side with someone for so long and you get to the stage where you're finishing each other's sentences," she told the Sunday Express S Magazine.

"I learned so much from working alongside him. When I started at Sky, I had this vision of how a newsreader should be and sound. "His approach is very much 'be yourself' – and that is what he helped me to do over that time."